How can you face a lawsuit over inventing a cool new thing? The court system is supposed to provide redress for hurting people or defrauding them, not inventing cool new things.

This is how I see it. Siri is a ground-breaking new feature. A lot of users like it and find it valuable. Perhaps for others it a bit less than magical, but as frequently mentioned it's beta, still under development. What's highly unusual IMO for a high-profile and industry leading company is making a beta feature the primary focus of the initial media blitz. Several ads a day on numerous TV channels supposedly showing how well it understands and how fast it responds. I've no doubt that a whole lot of buyers new to the iPhone bought into it just for that feature, as Apple expected they would. They won't be getting the same results tho, and yeah I know there's a tiny (very tiny) disclaimer in the closing shot. Agencies are paid well to place notices allowing them to avoid lawsuits so that they are there, but not there. I didn't even see it the first dozen or so times I saw the Rockstar ad.

The iPhone is a great device of course, and Siri shouldn't be the sole reason for buying or keeping one. It was Apple that made Siri the defining feature themselves by making it the only subject of the first wave of ads, repeated several times a day on every major network. Apple was sending the message over and over that Siri was the reason to buy the new iPhone, with no other feature being put front and center. They could be perceived as being a bit misleading by some early purchasers IMHO. By strangely choosing to focus on a beta feature as the defining reason to buy an iPhone 4S they were begging for some disappointments and complaints, which have predictably turned into lawsuits.

Apple should be commended for their creativity in adding features. Their creativity in advertising is going to come under closer scrutiny now more than in the past since they've become the biggest and richest bad boy on the block.

This is how I see it. Siri is a ground-breaking new feature. A lot of users like it and find it valuable. Perhaps for others it a bit less than magical, but as frequently mentioned it's beta, still under development. What's highly unusual IMO for a high-profile and industry leading company is making a beta feature the primary focus of the initial media blitz. Several ads a day on numerous TV channels supposedly showing how well it understands and how fast it responds. I've no doubt that a whole lot of buyers new to the iPhone bought into it just for that feature, as Apple expected they would. They won't be getting the same results tho, and yeah I know there's a tiny (very tiny) disclaimer in the closing shot. Agencies are paid well to place notices allowing them to avoid lawsuits so that they are there, but not there. I didn't even see it the first dozen or so times I saw the Rockstar ad.

The iPhone is a great device of course, and Siri shouldn't be the sole reason for buying or keeping one. It was Apple that made Siri the defining feature themselves by making it the only subject of the first wave of ads, repeated several times a day on every major network. Apple was sending the message over and over that Siri was the reason to buy the new iPhone, with no other feature being put front and center. They could be perceived as being a bit misleading by some early purchasers IMHO. By strangely choosing to focus on a beta feature as the defining reason to buy an iPhone 4S they were begging for some disappointments and complaints, which have predictably turned into lawsuits.

Apple should be commended for their creativity in adding features. Their creativity in advertising is going to come under closer scrutiny now more than in the past since they've become the biggest and richest bad boy on the block.

And so it was, the first class action lawsuit in history where everyone involved received a BILL for $3.45.

I don't think the fact that it's a beta is much of a defense. Apple uses Siri in its advertising and I don't believe its TV ads mention that it's a beta. Further, there's an implied warranty of merchantability (that is, a product you sell is supposed to work).

For people who are able to think rationally: The product works for most people and if you don't like it, there's a return policy where you can return it without penalty for some time period. It really is almost magical for the device to be able to do what it does when you consider how much people's voices vary from one another. Will there be a few people whose language is so distorted that it can't understand them? Sure. So they return the phone - or take speaking languages.

Siri is a beta anyway. If you don't like the way it works just return the phone...before you used it for 4 months.

And why does it seem Apple gets sued so often for their ads? Has anyone ever sued the beer companies? I've never seen anyone open a beer and then have an ice train with bikini girls come flying in but that's what their commercials depict.

I have quite a few Apple products (the first Intel iMac, a 27" iMac, have all iPhones (except 4s), the new iPad) so don't confuse me for some Android fanboy on Google's payroll whose part time job is to seed anti-Apple sentiment.

That said, I don't get Apple's advertising strategy lately. I always found Apple's main attraction to be their very high quality and design. What's with this ridiculous advertising nowadays where Siri is advertised as some Star-trek like computer assistant (*but it's only beta so please don't expect anything about toy level) and the iPad is ultra fast 4G LTE (*but you have to travel to the USA for LTE).

I think that's just beneath THE leading consumer tech company of the world.

A new class-action lawsuit has been filed against Apple over its Siri voice recognition feature of the iPhone 4S with allegations that the company is falsely representing the service's capabilities.

Good heavens, if you don't like the product, return it. Did you suffer damages? Probably not. Were the ads deceptive? Apparently not for the majority of other Siri users. Has Apple got a bundle of cash? You bet! And you want some...

Here's the thing, voice recognition is constantly evolving. And certain accents, regional dialects and/or speach patterns don't work as well as others. Try calling your financial institution, government office, or a business entity that has switched from the typical "Press 1 for this, press 2 for that" to a voice recognition system. Just see how many times the voice prompt tells you "I'm sorry, I didn't get that. Please say <<<entry>>again".

Siri is a beta anyway. If you don't like the way it works just return the phone...before you used it for 4 months.

And why does it seem Apple gets sued so often for their ads? Has anyone ever sued the beer companies? I've never seen anyone open a beer and then have an ice train with bikini girls come flying in but that's what their commercials depict.

Or how about the happy faces on the users of Microsoft products? I don't people with happy faces when they use Windows.

The users that would sue Apple over Siri are just delusional. Siri is in Beta.